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  • Beyond Shangri-La

    America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century

    by John Kenneth Knaus ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

    Enriched edition. Unveiling Mujahideen's Strategic Brilliance in the Afghan War

    by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Maxwell Clark ...
    In "The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War," Ali Ahmad Jalali offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the guerrilla warfare techniques employed by the Afghan Mujahideen during the conflict with Soviet forces from 1979 to 1989. Written with meticulous attention to detail, Jalali's work combines firsthand accounts, strategic assessments, and a critical ... Read more

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  • The End of Imagination

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and "one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation" ( The Washington Post).With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully ... Read more

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  • Akbar, Emperor of india

    by Richard von Garbe ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Aboard the Democracy Train

    A Journey through Pakistan's Last Decade of Democracy

    by Nafisa Hoodbhoy ...
    Series series Anthem South Asian Studies
    ‘Aboard the Democracy Train’ is about politics and journalism in Pakistan. It is a gripping front-line account of the country’s decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era at ‘Dawn’, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper. In this volume, the author reveals her unique experiences and coverage of ethnic violence, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Portuguese in Malay Land

    by Geraldo Affonso Muzzi ...
    In his book “The Study Of Ancient Times In The Malay Peninsula”, Dato Sir Roland Braddell (1880-1966) writes, “No statement could be more untrue or more unwise than that Malaya has no history”. This dense work of 458 pages (reprinted edition no. 7 by MBRAS in 1989), from Dato Sir Braddells's studies appearing in the “Journal of Asiatic Society”, between 1935 and 1951, is followed by 50 pages of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Beyond Belief

    India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

    by Srirupa Roy, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Modern Practices in North East India

    History, Culture, Representation

    Edited by Manjeet Baruah, Lipokmar Dzüvichü ...
    This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region. Departing from the usual focus on identity and politics, it offers fresh representations from history, social anthropology, culture, literature, politics, performance and gender.Through the lens of modern practices, the essays in this ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Indigeneity, Landscape and History

    Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

    by Asoka Kumar Sen ...
    This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia

    Edited by Kaushik Roy, Gavin Rand ...
    Series series War and Society in South Asia
    This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • War, Denial and Nation-Building in Sri Lanka

    After the End

    by Rachel Seoighe ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book begins from a critical account of the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war, tracing themes of nationalism, discourse and conflict memory through this period of immense violence and into its aftermath. Using these themes to explore state crime, atrocity and its denial and representation, Seoighe offers an analysis of how stories of conflict are authored and constructed. This book ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India

    by K. S. Subramanian ...
    This book discusses the history of unrest and conflict in Northeast India from 1947 to the present day. A perceptive study on public policy and its delivery in the region, the volume highlights that a crisis of governance, security and development has emerged in the Northeast because of the way various government institutions and agencies have been functioning in the area. It uses case studies to ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD